Most hospitals try to avoid staff burnout… I look for it. Three shifts a day, 95% of your assets walk out the door. It’s my goal to make them eager to return.

Whose fault is it when your nursing staff leave?

Frankly, it’s often yours (and I don’t even know you- but I’m certain that you’re a nice person…). You didn’t perceive increasingly cold staff interactions, or simply a lack of bounce in a step or smile in your staff's eyes. Have a physician who no one wants to work with? Do you provide your staff the tools and techniques they need to thrive and provide excellent care at your hospital?

How much is ‘staff burnout’ costing your hospital?

The American Hospital Association estimates the cost of replacing one staff nurse equals the annual salary for that nurse. At a median annual salary of $65,000 for RNs, it adds up to an expensive problem for your hospital, and a concern for your patients. What’s your staff vacancy rate? How much is it costing you for agency nurses and overtime?

When magnet hospitals decide to ensure staff retention, this is what they do.

Magnet Designation focuses on advancing the goals of promoting quality care in a milieu that supports professional practice. Is your hospital happy and healthy? Have you taken the temperature if your milieu? Is all well, or are there some vague unhappy rumblings?

Staunch your healthcare hemorrhage with a customized Rx For Sanity workshop or presentation. Beyond orthodox, humdrum CME and CEU lectures, imagine enjoying:

Dr. Patricia Raymond of Rx for Sanity will provide a full day experience for your hospital staff that won’t disrupt vital patient care and will enhance both the tone and the staff retention of your hospital.

Your day may include:
• A 0700 one hour keynote to capture the departing night shift and half of your day shift
• A lunchtime one hour keynote for nurse managers, physicians, or both
• A 1500 one hour keynote for the remaining day shift and the evening shift
Just add free food to ensure great attendance; I’ll keep them in their seats or rolling in the aisles. You see, I know that food will lure healthcare workers anywhere!

Don’t just apply a temporary tourniquet to your staff’s dis-ease, together let’s cure your hospital’s issues. Call me or email, and we’ll talk about how Dr Raymond may be of service to you and to your hospital facility.

Order your presentation STAT! Choose from the following diagnoses:

For staff burnout and compassion fatigue:

Rx For Sanity: Triage, Love and Laughter
Do your nurses still sizzle with joy as they care for their patients? Can they recall the passion they experienced when they entered their profession? Renew, restore, and revitalize your staff with Dr. Raymond’s signature humorous, practical and educational keynote.

Medicine: A Fantastic Journey (for Nurses & Docs together)
Medicine is an adventure, and is especially rewarding when we honor the different skill sets of all travelers. A great keynote for mixed professional audiences.

Spa Hospital: Restore Hospitality to Hospital Care
On the art and science of incorporating spa techniques of therapeutic touch, subliminal speech, ‘mood’ lighting and aromatherapy to enhance staff job satisfaction and keep your patients coming back for more. Low cost, low tech, high touch bedside techniques that have been long neglected in modern healthcare.

Don’t Jettison Medicine: Resuscitate Your Passion for the Career You Loved
On resuscitating your physician staff ‘s passion for healthcare.
Dr. Raymond’s signature humorous, practical and educational keynote.

For uncivil staff interactions or the occasional cranky physician:

Bedside Manners: Heal Your Relationships in Healthcare
On the effects and cure for rude behavior in medicine. Provide your staff the tools to change the tone of your facility and enhance their enjoyment in their profession.

The Rude Get Sued
Doctors save patients but nurses often save doctors! How often does our staff play an essential role in pulling our fannies out of the fire? On rude behavior and increased malpractice risk. A risk management favorite!

For nursing retention deficit disorder:

Nursing: Cure Your Retention Deficit Disorder
Nurses are losing their passion for the profession. How can we re-engage our colleagues? This experienced physician shares secrets to recruit, retrain and reinvigorate your staff. Engage in the challenges of partnering in the operations of your facility.

Liked or in Charge? Strained Relationships between Women Bosses and Staff
Are you their buddy or their boss? Sometimes have difficulty separating the two? Explore the fine line between bossy and boss. Great for nurse managers, female physicians and administrators alike.

Health Works!
Improve retention, productivity, and your hospital’s bottom line. Hire a pricey business consultant? Nah, just pay attention to your employee health. They say that hard work never killed anyone… but have you ever heard of anyone resting to death? Explore your hospitals work environment, food choices, exercise and stress management programs, and discover that having a healthy workplace is simply good business.

***FREE*** with any of the above:

an extra thirty minute humorous presentation to amuse and delight your staff!

The Divine Ms Bitt Meddler and her Colonoscopy Tour
Come laugh and learn about colonoscopy and your need for colon cancer screening! 'Butt Meddler' and her hit single "The Wind Between Your Cheeks" will have your audience crack their vertical smiles!

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